POUGHKEEPSIE – Dutchess County Supreme Court Justice Maria Rosa has ruled in the county’s favor restraining the City of New York from transporting homeless persons to any hotel or other facility for overnight rentals in the county.
County Executive William O’Neil called the justice’s decision “wise and thoughtful.”
On Sunday, May 21, without coordination with the county or consideration of local capacity or resource, the New York City Mayor’s Office transported 80 homeless individuals, asylum seekers who were in New York City’s custodial care, to Dutchess and housed them at the Red Roof Inn in the Town of Poughkeepsie.
The county opposed the move on the basis of the hotel as a homeless shelter was unlawful and potentially detrimental to the individuals in care and the community at large.
The case went through a number of rulings and on December 13, Justice Rosa ruled that New York’s transport of migrants to Dutchess and attempt to operate a local hotel as a homeless shelter violated lawful procedure, was without basis in law, and was arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion.”
The justice permanently enjoined New York from transporting any homeless adult or minor seeking temporary shelter in the county’s hotels or short-term overnight rentals and also ordered the city to transport the migrants in Dutchess at the Red Roof Inn back to New York within 180 days.
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